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Disarm or else

IT IS rare for the world to seem as divided as it is today. The question of what to do next about Iraq brought millions of people onto the streets last weekend in protest, and exposed raw political differences between “Old Europe” and the US. At the UN security council in New York, the US and Britain were stonewalled as they sought further backing to forcibly disarm Saddam Hussein.

While the world agonises, 100 weapons UNinspectors continue to search, sample and track anything in Iraq that might give them a better picture of that country’s weapons programmes. Their success or …